Glenn A. Rice Funkhouser Vegosen Liebman & Dunn Ltd. 55 West Monroe Street Suite 2300 Chicago, Illinois 60603 TEL: 312.701.6895 FAX: 312.701.6801

Glenn grew up in the Chicago area.  He received his undergraduate degree in business management in 1982 from Northern Illinois University.  In 1985, he received his J.D., with honors, from Illinois Institute of Technology -- Chicago-Kent College of Law.  Glenn was a member of the Chicago-Kent Law Review, 1984-1985.  He co-authored “Evidence: Application and Refinement of the Federal Rules of Evidence in the Seventh Circuit,” 61 Chicago-Kent Law Review 395 (1985).  Glenn was also a Legal Writing Teaching Assistant at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law from 1984-1985.

After his graduation from law school, Glenn served from 1986-1988 as Law Clerk to Chief Justice William G. Clark of the Illinois Supreme Court.  Following his clerkship, Glenn became associated with FVLD.  Glenn became a member of the Firm, on January 1, 1997.

Glenn has practiced in a variety of areas, concentrating primarily in federal and state court litigation, intellectual property, employment relations, media, and antitrust law.  Glenn’s practice includes both civil trial and appellate level litigation and arbitration proceedings before the American Arbitration Association and JAMS. 

Glenn’s intellectual property practice focuses on trademark selection and federal registration of trademarks and copyrights, advising clients on trademark and copyright protection and infringement issues, representing clients in proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and in trademark, and trade secret, copyright and patent litigation matters. 

Recently, in a case of first impression in the Illinois Appellate Court, Glenn and two other FVLD attorneys successfully defended the dismissal of one of the Firm’s media clients from a lawsuit seeking over $4 million in damages under the the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act for the alleged misappropriation of an idea for a television show that was presented to the client in a pilot video.  On appeal, the Illinois Appellate Court not only affirmed the trial court’s dismissal on the ground that the statutory fraud claim was preempted by the Federal Copyright Act, but also was persuaded to go even further to hold that the trial court would also have been justified in dismissing the lawsuit as being without factual basis because the plaintiff’s allegations were contradicted by the exhibits to its complaint.

Glenn also has extensive experience counseling clients on a day-to-day basis about hiring, firing, and other employment-related issues, preparing employment, confidentiality, non-competition, invention assignment and separation agreements, defending employment discrimination cases both at the administrative level and in the courts, negotiating settlement agreements, and working with media companies on FOIA requests to government agencies and First Amendment issues. 

Glenn is admitted to practice before the Illinois Supreme Court, the Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section, the American Bar Association’s Litigation and Intellectual Property Law Sections, and the American Marketing Association. 

Glenn is married and has a daughter and a son.  Glenn’s interests include music, running and swimming.